Drew Barrymore: Unemployable By 14 [throw back]

a hot pod. Summer's heartened. Here must be Summer. We're giving you our favorite moments, and today we need to talk about Drew Barrymore. She's a hand fondler. Some call her she gets too close. Oh yeah, you're wondering what I was talking. She started her career as a baby on an AD and she went on to star in the wedding singer Charlie's Angels and fifty first Dates. Her very early relationship with acting and fame has shaped her into an overly honest and some might say intense person.

She invites big celebrities onto her self titled talk show and Look, we need to talk about the time she called Kamala Mamala. I think Kamala's kids call her Mamla. They do, but it was just the Drew Barrymore said, Sorry, Drew Barmo mama. Anyway, this is a moment from our big episode on Drew Barrymore. By eleven, Barrymore had an alcohol problem. By twelve, she says she was a drug addict. By thirteen, she was self harming and hospitalized for a year and a half, and by fourteen she was divorced

from her parents and living on her own. She went on to star in some of the most iconic films ever, Never Been Kissed. Sorry, Amily, it took me forever to go there. I know what she meant. Fabulous, Ah disagree, scream you never told me your name? Why do you want to know my name? I don't want to know who I'm looking at? What did you say? Ex fabulous Charlie's angels, Good morning Angels, good morning Charlie fabulous? Ever

after watch it at school? The wedding Singer fifty first Dates music and Lyrics, where Hugh Grant was like, I don't think she likes me. Remember she came up in that episode, and most recently she was in Santa Clara Diet. Do you remember that, Yeah, Clarita don I don't know. I didn't watch it. I think it was about zombies. It was very trying to be the walking Dead anyway. Now she hosts her own talk show called The Drew Barrymore Show. Oh, thanks for hanging out with us. Can

I just share something and be totally honest? I am rocking the caffeine this morning because I pulled an all nighter with my daughter. Frankie. I'm sure you thought everything goes exactly according to plan at all times around here, right ah ah, which I consume solely through TikTok, and we're going to get to it comes up a fair bit before we begin, Oh I Drew, Yeah, No, always get good vibes. She seems like she'd be lovely in person. Yeah. So,

I think she's a good actress. And this was a surprisingly difficult episode to prep for because despite being in the industry since she was eleven months old, she's not been canceled that often. What's happened not very often. She seems very sweet, and she's had a rough upbringing and

come back from that, which personally, I find commendable. But it also goes to show how great it was that for somebody like Drew Barrymore, social media didn't exist when she was a teenager because she got to just go to rehab. Yes, but when she was I think she was about nineteen, and she was on Larry one of the one of the Larry's, David Letterman, David Lettiman, and she danced on the table and she flashed him. And that's on the internet. Was that cringe? This is the

thing the Internet. I fucking loves Drew Barrymore. Yeah. All the comments are just like, she's classic Drew. She's a good time, she's fun, she's so nineties, love her hair, and I'm like, she flashed David Letterman. I'm not canceling it, but neither are you. Yeah. So look, I don't decide

who's in the cancel courtroom. The culture does. And my structure for today is as follows the original NEPO Baby unemployable by fourteen, She says she'd had a midlife crisis, but I reck you and I was unemployable by fourteen. But that's because No, I did make a horrific mistakes at Boostooth I didn't shoar up for my second shift because I'm not confused at the video shop, so I was unemployable. No, Muma called and said, can you hire her back? And they said, okay. Dancing in the Rain

is Drew Barrymore a scab? And lastly the Drew Barrymore Show. Yes, the original Nappo Baby Little Drew was born to two actors, but that is not the whole story. She comes from a family of actors that stretches back. Yes, how many years do you think? I think like three generations? No, God, wait, there was no acting three generations ago. I don't know four hundred years what I thought the same about act There was no acting four hundred, four hundred years. I

didn't know. This is in my notes. I didn't know that had act just four hundred years ago. Thought they we had farmers. Okay, Shakespeare comes up? Is that I'm like, I didn't do the maths, but Shakespeare hundred vibes? Yeah, now two thousands ish, cannot be sure, but I'm thinking four hundred years ish. So I'm imagining a great great great great great grandfather or grandmother, probably grandfather because patriarchy in Tight's Midsummer Night's Dream with his willy contour app Yeah,

and looking a lot like Drew. Oh, looking exactly atro Drew's face. Look, you saw her in the dog food commercial. You can't deny her talent. But even Barrymore says she was on movie sets from day one. So when they needed a baby, it's like, how about we get the one suck in the camera because you always wonder you see like a baby in a show, you think it is that it's always the wrong age. It's your newborn and it's a three year old. Yeah, that's a plot point,

that fourteen kilo baby. Why did that person birth a fully formed human being. Her godmother is Italian actress Sophia Laren and her godfather is a bit more low key, Steven Spielbert. She asked after et if he could be her godfather, and her mum was like, okay, fine. When she was nineteen and she posed naked for Playboy, Spielberg sent her a large quilt with a note attached that simply read, cover up what a good godfather? Had some advice I mean no nor sexiest patriarchy, etcetera. But but

she didn't have a dad. It's cute that there's a photo of her at nine years old beside President Ronald Reagan. But and this is where I'm always uncomfortable with the NEPO baby stuff. It might have given her a leg up in her career, but her home life a mess. Her dad was an alcoholic, left when she was nine, although he'd always been absent, and around that time when her I think she was about eight years old when her mum was like, babe, let's go clubbing five nights weet, oh, no,

fifty yeah, which brings us to unemployable by fourteen. In an interview with the Guardian, Barrymore says that by her mid teens she couldn't get a job. You won't believe it, but all that clubbing and no school meant that Barrymore was chaos. She was stealing a mum's car and, in her words, out of control. She says she was drinking at nine, smoking pot at ten, using cocaine at twelve, which meant she was blacklisted from Hollywood for having reputation

as a party girl. Can you imagine a party girl that's just a child? Yes? Okay, So you're a director or a producer and you're out at the club and you're seeing a twelve year old's not cocaine and you're like, ugh, just another party girl going too hard on a Tuesday night, not being like maybe we should confiscate with her. Yeah, do you need some help because by my calculations, you should be in year six? You should be in year six. Would you like some ice cream with some iced magic?

Because that should be the fun. Why don't you go to your room and play this great game called the Sims. You should be playing the Sims in a dressing gown. But yeah, it's weird to look at that kid and be like, here comes track listing. You just another party girl, just twelve. So she was sent to rehab twice before she was thirteen. Imagine being in rehab rehab people it's like your hair. No, we aren't hereat substance abuse in children. Yeah, I feel like that's an issue. Then at thirteen, Drew

Barrymore's mum Jade was like, I've had enough. I can't do this, So she sent her to a psychiatric facility for one year and one half eighteen months. She sent her to a psychiatric unit that she couldn't leave. She was like, you're a lot and it's like, no shit, on her twelfth birthday, she was not in the cocaine yeap. That is so sad And it reminds me of this thing I've heard people say where it's like you can be like when you talk about privilege, Yeah, economically privileged,

but like family wise, incredibly emotionally yeah deprived. Yeah yeah, And that's what it was, was her. And you think privilege is more complicated than simply having parents who happened to be in Hollywood, Yeah, because the cost of that was big. So while she was there, a few professionals advised that she emancipate herself from her mother, who maybe wasn't the best influence. So by fourteen she was living on her

own divorce from her parents. She washed dishes and worked some normal jobs for a few years, but eventually she got a role in an erotic thrill out called Poison IVY in nineteen ninety two, and her career skyrocketed from there. To listen to that entire episode, click the link. In our show notes, we're investigating the serious stuff like is she a scab? Does she know what personal spaces? And why does she sometimes make us feel weird when she's

sitting on people's laps. Sometimes she's kneeling in front of people. Yeah, prostrating. It's somewhat say. We're recanceling three things every week of the summer break, including celebrities, TV shows, celebrity couples, and press tours because we need to keep the investigations running. Someone's got to do it. You can find videos from the podcast and evidence of celebrity crimes on our Instagram at the Twins Underscore Thoughts, or on TikTok at cancel the podcast, Bye Bye,